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A significant way in how the whole world turns actually rests in the hands of US President Barack Obama and his administration. Tempering the nuclearization of global weaponry, harnessing efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions posthaste and on a global scale, truly changing the fate of Afghans, assuring stability in the potentially combustible [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based body, warned that ‘the world must prepare for a mass increase in climate-linked migration.’ Deemed as a certain reality in the foreseeable future, it is what leaders who wrangled deals at the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to be alarmed about. The United Nations Climate Change [...]

Where on one side we have countries trying to strike a deal on emission cuts in Copenhagen Climate Conference, the design buffs are on a stride to make convenient eco-friendly modes of travel. Daniel Finkelstein, an Industrial Designer though of revamping the way we look at Bicycles. Altercycle, as the designer hails it, is a hinged recumbent bike that [...]

’No one said Copenhagen was going to be easy. After all, at its heart, the climate summit is about persuading nearly 200 nations to use drastically less of the fossil fuels that power the global economy.’ The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States gave hope that a legally binding climate agreement in Copenhagen would be produced. [...]

A lot of skepticism has grown regarding the success of the just opened United Nations Climate Change Conference (December 7-18, 2009), more commonly called Copenhagen Climate Conference. Skeptics believe that climate agreements will not be reached during the summit. On the other hand, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), [...]

Realists claim that the Copenhagen Climate Conference or the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference 2009 will fail in its intended agenda, and that no climate deals will be forged between December 7 and 18 of 2009. Months before the climate summit, it had already been clear that climate negotiations will hit a standoff. ‘The rest of the world has been [...]

Right before the Copenhagen Climate Conference, ‘a group of scientists issued an update on the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Their conclusions? Ice at both poles is melting faster than predicted, the claims of recent global cooling are wrong, and world leaders must act fast if steep temperature rises are to be avoided.’ The [...]

Beijing’s declaration that the country aims ‘to reduce its carbon intensity by 40 to 45 percent by 2020’ does not mean that ‘China’s overall emissions will drop, it just means that CO2 emissions per unit of GDP will decline. Because China’s economy is growing at such a torrid pace, overall emissions will keep ticking upward—it’s [...]

China, the world’s largest CO2 emitter, has pledged to increase its efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will also attend the Copenhagen Climate Summit, officially known as COP15 UN Climate Change Conference 2009, ‘to show the country’s commitment to the global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions.’ [...]

The road to Copenhagen has become torturous. The ghosts of things past such as the 1997 Kyoto Protocol whose provisions the Copenhagen Climate Conference hopes to rectify and revise continue to haunt the imperative climate negotiations and the ultimate climate deal. Kyoto’s promise of 5% emissions cuts (by 2012, from 1990 levels) is now impossible. [...]